Welcome Media Lead Staff!
This page has been set up to provide you with training and resources you will need to serve successfully during your week at JP. Read through this page thoroughly as we have made some changes for increased accountabiity in 2025.
A reminder about your role as Media Lead:
Remember your mission for the week: to capture and document the JP Experience. This is not just for the campers and staff who are on your week. These photos will be shared via social media. They are used on the JP websites, newsletters, and in mailings and postcards.
Refrain from uploading unusable photos and please avoid the fish-eye lens!
Focus on:
1. Group photos of campers working on site.
For working photos, sometimes it's best to have campers take a second to pause and "act" like they're working.
2. Photos of campers playing at camp.
At camp, gather groups for group photos playing games - outside and inside. We love a group photo, but some pictures of 2 or 3 people together is good too!
Don't forget the adults and staff (minimize pics of the staff). They are essential to the JP Experience as well!
Please do NOT take lots of pics of staffers making goofy faces, etc. Please save those for your personal phone.
Google Drive (new in 2025)
Instead of giving a flash drive (with pictures from the week) on Saturday, staff and adults will have access to the Google photo drive for the week! You are responsible for placing all photos for the week on the Drive connected to the photos@jeremiahproject.org account. These photos will be shared with all adults and staff for the week, as well as the Project Assistant. It is important to do this daily to make sure you stay on top of it!
Pictures & Slide Shows
You are responsible for taking pictures and creating daily slide shows. Although you will be working the first part of the day at a work site, you are to spend the second half visiting worksites for the purpose of taking photos of the work teams. Work with the CD and TCs to pick at least 2 sites to visit after you leave your site and before returning to camp.
Gathering Pictures
Since we now have internet capabilities at the 4H Center, we will be able to have pictures emailed to the JP staff Gmail account. This should make it much easier to download pictures directly from the email account on the presentation computer. We will give adult leaders the email account so that they can send in pictures throughout the day. While adults have this email, we cannot count on them for all the photos! Do your best to take quality photos (and get them from other staff as well) at your work site and the sites you visit.
Slide Shows.
A slide show should be the length of a standard song: 3-4 minutes long. This equates to about 40 pictures for a typical slide show.
Sound Tracks.
We will provide a folder of songs to be used to accompany the slide show. These songs will be embedded into the slide show mpg file.
Making Slide Shows
While you are at JP we expect ALL Media Leads to follow JP procedures for creating slide shows by using OpenShot. You will be trained in camp and will have a step-by-step procedure to follow to create and then import into MediaShout.
Schedule
When you get back to camp, (and after a nice shower!), you will want to go to the worship space to create your slide show and have it done for the evening program. During this time, upload to the Drive, organize photos, delete the unusable (or too small) photos!
Presentation Software.
MediaShout 7 is our presentation software and you need to be familiar with it so that you can confidently serve each night for evening program. Note that everything will be loaded into MediaShout for you each day. Much of what you'll be doing is advancing the slides as needed.